Karl Llewellyn and the realist movement / William Twining, University College London.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twining, William, 1934- author.

Series:

Law in Context.

Law in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Llewellyn, Karl N. (Karl Nickerson), 1893-1962.

Llewellyn, Karl N.

Law--United States.

Law.

Jurisprudence.

Law teachers--United States--Biography.

Law teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 630 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Karl Llewellyn & the Realist Movement

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1973, Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement is a classic account of American Legal Realism and its leading figure. Karl Llewellyn is the best known and most substantial jurist of the group of lawyers known as the American Realists. He made important contributions to legal theory, legal sociology, commercial law, contract law, civil liberties and legal education. This intellectual biography sets Llewellyn in the broad context of the rise of the American Realist Movement and contains an overview of his life before focusing on his most important works, including The Cheyenne Way, The Bramble Bush, The Common Law Tradition and the Uniform Commercial Code. In this second edition the original text is supplemented with a preface by Frederick Schauer and an afterword in which William Twining gives a fascinating account of the making of the book and comments on developments in relevant legal scholarship over the past forty years.

Contents:

The rise of the realist movement 1870-1931

Langdell's Harvard

Corbin's Yale, 1897-1918

Columbia in the 1920s

The aftermath of the split

The realist controversy, 1930-1931

The life and work of Karl Llewellyn : a case study

The man

Two early works

The Cheyenne way

Law in our society

The common law tradition

The genesis of the uniform commercial code

The jurisprudence of the uniform commercial code

Miscellaneous writings

The significance of Llewellyn : an assessment

Conclusion

The significance of realism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-88906-0

1-139-53213-8

1-139-15108-8

1-139-52866-1

1-139-52627-8

1-139-53094-1

1-283-87031-2

1-139-52747-9

OCLC:

833769742